Add deprecation notices for <% %>.

  * The approach is to compile <% %> into a method call that checks whether
    the value returned from a block is a String. If it is, it concats to the buffer and
    prints a deprecation warning.
  * <%= %> uses exactly the same logic to compile the template, which first checks
    to see whether it's compiling a block.
  * This should have no impact on other uses of block in templates. For instance, in
    <% [1,2,3].each do |i| %><%= i %><% end %>, the call to each returns an Array,
    not a String, so the result is not concatenated
  * In two cases (#capture and #cache), a String can be returned that should *never*
    be concatenated. We have temporarily created a String subclass called NonConcattingString
    which behaves (and is serialized) identically to String, but is not concatenated
    by the code that handles deprecated <% %> block helpers. Once we remove support
    for <% %> block helpers, we can remove NonConcattingString.

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diff --git a/actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/prototype_helper.rb b/actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/prototype_helper.rb
index e58fdf81fb..e46ca53275 100644
--- a/actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/prototype_helper.rb
+++ b/actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/prototype_helper.rb
@@ -689,6 +689,10 @@ module ActionView
         @generator << root if root
       end
 
+      def is_a?(klass)
+        klass == JavaScriptProxy
+      end
+
       private
         def method_missing(method, *arguments, &block)
           if method.to_s =~ /(.*)=$/